Could Nintendo realistically do this

[KLXVER]

zorg1000 said:

KLXVER said:

It wouldnt be niche games. Have you seen the backlog of these companies? Hundreds of great games. 

Not sure what you mean about paying to play older games are somehow not acceptable? Thats what we are doing now. Why would they suddenly become free?

And yes, I didnt put that much thought into it. I just thought it would be a great conversation piece

If Nintendo get like 30 million subsribers, that would mean 150-300M a year for each company. I somehow doubt anyone makes that much off their older games.

But you just said their big games like Sonic, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Castlevania could remain multiplatform so give me some examples of the games that are big enough for Nintendo to spend millions/billions on.

I was talking about Nintendo, not consumers. How is Nintendo paying for old games to be exclusive on their platform thinking ahead?

Your numbers make no sense, in this hypothetical scenario sure Konami, Sega, etc are probably making more money on these games but why in the hell would Nintendo spend ~$1 billion/year on a bunch of 20-40 year old games? People aren’t going to buy Nintendo hardware or subscribe to Nintendo services specifically for these games so it doesn’t make them any money.

Well you are kinda contradicting yourself here. You say its anti consumer to make these bunch of 20-40 year old games nobody cares about exclusive to Nintendo consoles. So if they are basically worthless, then Nintendo could spend way less on them then. Give them 1 dollar per subscriber if they are that worthless.

Thinking ahead is when consoles are faded out and streaming becomes the norm. Instead of subscribing to 5 services, we would have 1. I think they would be stronger together than on their own.